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Readers who love lost-world adventure, early science fiction, and big ideas about life and machines will feel at home here. Vivid landscapes and a growing mystery reward anyone who enjoys tales of the unknown.
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What would you do if a ray of sunset light snapped like a thread, and the next day you found a footprint two hundred feet long pressed into a mountain slope? Dr. Walter Goodwin, a botanist, faces exactly that in a valley of blue poppies in Tibet. He has gone there to forget a great loss. Instead he meets something that thinks, moves, and strikes, and is made entirely of metal.
The Metal Monster is a novel by Abraham Merritt, told as Goodwin's own account. You get a fast adventure and a close look at a very strange idea of life.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A grieving man finds a friend among poppiesFree
- 2A giant mark and a hollow of despair
- 3Little metal shapes think and strike
- 4A woman with starlit eyes commands the metal
- 5The ride into the Pit meets the Emperor
- 6A voice from the void names the danger
- 7A living city feeds on the sun
- 8Human dominion is a loan, not a gift
- 9Order and disorder meet in two women
- 10A scientist tells the tale in dazzling light
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A grieving man finds a friend among poppies
Goodwin opens his tale in July, camped in a valley carpeted with blue poppies. He has wandered since March through Persia and the high ranges, trying to dull a sorrow that followed him home. His companion is Chiu-Ming, a Chinese man who cooks better than anyone within ten thousand miles of Pekin.
Then a young American strides down a brown hillside. He is Richard Drake, a giant of an engineer fresh from the war in France. Over supper the two men take to each other at once.
At sunset the valley blazes with violet, green, and rose light. A rosy ray in the sky splits into six beams, which sway faster and faster until they snap, as if a hand had broken them and drawn the ends down into the northern peaks. Goodwin offers magnetism, but Drake says it felt deliberate, like a metal claw striking every nerve. Chiu-Ming whispers about devils.
Grief sends a man into the wilderness, and the wilderness answers with a puzzle his training cannot close.
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- LengthAbout 79,000 words
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Questions about Le Monstre de métal
What is The Metal Monster about?
A botanist traveling in Tibet finds a giant footprint, lost Persian soldiers, and a hidden valley where living beings made of metal build a city. With three friends and a mysterious woman named Norhala, he learns what they are.
Who is Norhala in The Metal Monster?
Norhala is a tall woman with copper hair and star-flecked eyes who speaks ancient Persian and commands lightning and the metal beings. She seems half human and half something far older, and she has a past of her own.
Who wrote The Metal Monster and when?
Abraham Merritt wrote it as a work of fiction after the First World War. It is told as the account of Dr. Walter Goodwin, a botanist, and it belongs to the early days of American science fiction.
What are the Metal People in the book?
They are thinking beings of metal and crystal, shaped as cubes, globes, and pyramids, that join into larger forms and even a whole living city. They draw energy from magnetism and from the sun.
Is The Metal Monster easy to follow?
The story moves in clear steps, narrated by one scientist who explains what he sees as he goes. Short chapters, steady action, and lively descriptions of light and color make it welcoming to adventure fans.
Cite this edition
Merritt, Abraham. The Metal Monster. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-metal-monster.
Merritt, A. (2026). The metal monster. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-metal-monster (Original work published 1920)
Merritt, Abraham. The Metal Monster. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-metal-monster.
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author = {Merritt, Abraham},
title = {The Metal Monster},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1920}
}
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